Enforcer are to release their fourth album, the self-produced ‘From Beyond’, via Nuclear Blast on March 2 in the UK. Vocalist and guitar player Olof Wikstrand said of the new album: “From Beyond is faster, heavier, louder, darker and more vicious all at the same time without losing a tiny bit …
Read More »PlanetMosh Album of the year 2014
Twenty-Fourteen was another amazing year in the world of hard rock and metal. With so many crunching releases to sift through, the staff here at PlanetMosh submitted their favourite albums of the year. Almost 200 albums were added to the final spreadsheet and PlanetMosh is proud to announce: …
Read More »PlanetMosh Readers Album of the Year 2014 – poll
PlanetMosh have compiled a poll for the best albums released in 2014 and now we are asking YOU, our readers, to pick your three favourite albums from 2014. The Poll will remain open until Saturday December 27th at 18.00. Will you agree with our Staff ? The PlanetMosh Album Of …
Read More »Melechesh to release new album in February
Israeli progressive metallers Melechesh are to release their new album, ‘Enki’, via Nuclear Blast pn February 9. The album – the follow up to 2010’s ‘The Epigenesis’ – was once again written and produced by band founder and guitarist Ashmedi. The band have revealed the album’s tracklisting: Tempest Temper Enlil …
Read More »Crobot – Something Supernatural
@planetmosh reviews Something Supernatural by .@Crobotband on .@nuclearblasteu I have no idea what Crobot are smoking, but it’s certainly giving them one hell of a trip. This album should have been named Everything Supernatural, as every track takes us through a nightmare collection of devils, wizards, necromancers and the legendary chupacabra. …
Read More »SONATA ARCTICA dance across North America in hilarious new video!
SONATA ARCTICA released the re-recorded version of their debut album Ecliptica, in celebration of the album’s original release 15 years ago, at the end of last month. Ecliptica – Revisited; 15th Anniversary Edition not only contains all of the original album tracks but also includes a cover of the Genesis …
Read More »Anthrax – Chile On Hell
Growing up a “Thrash Kid”, I had two goals to see the Big Four live and to see Avenged Sevenfold be exposed as posers and the terrible songwriters that they are. Luckily in 2012, I achieved both when I saw Anthrax dominate the Academy in Dublin (and I caught Frank …
Read More »Brujeria return with new album
Atencion cabrones… one of the most underground of underground metal acts are returning to action! Masked Mexican banditos Brujeria have once more emerged from hiding, signed a deal with Nuclear Blast Entertainment and are poised to release a new album next year. In typically mysterious Brujeria style, that is all …
Read More »Bury Tomorrow – Interview with Dan Winter-Bates, 22/10/14
I caught up with Dan, vocalist for Bury Tomorrow, before their show at the Bierkeller in Bristol for a quick chat where we discussed the new album Runes, playing Download Festival this year and why Pantera are a kid’s gateway to metal…
Read More »CARCASS Reveal Official Video For ‘The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills’
Directed by Kazuaki ‘Kazu’ Kimura and Glenn Maguire, the official video for the track ‘The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills’ off the latest album by disinterred British extreme metal icons CARCASS, is now available for viewing on the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel: Surgical Steel – CARCASS’ first studio release since …
Read More »EXODUS Fourth Album Trailer For ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ Revealed Online
Bay Area thrash metal provocateurs EXODUS are set to unleash their new album Blood In, Blood Out on October 13th via Nuclear Blast. Until then, the band are whetting fan’s appetite by revealing a series of trailers about the making of the new album. The fourth trailer is now online and features bassist …
Read More »SYLOSIS announce new album ‘Dormant Heart’
SYLOSIS will be releasing their much anticipated new album ‘Dormant Heart’ at the start of next year. Frontman Josh Middleton has commented the record is their strongest work to date. “It’s the most pissed-off, aggressive and intense album we’ve done, yet it still retains the epic, progressive and melodic side we’re also known for. …
Read More »Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase I – Neohumanity)
After seeing Scar Symmetry play live in Belfast last year and picking up their last full length album ‘The Unseen Empire’, I was looking forward to getting my hands on their new album ‘The Singularity (Phase I – Neohumanity)’. Even better was the news that it is set to be the …
Read More »Decapitated – Blood Mantra
Polish Death Metal juggernauts, Decapitated, are back on the scene and this time they’ve upp-ed their game. Blood Mantra is the band’s sixth full-length studio album, the first to feature the bands new blast-beating machine, Michal Lysejko and they’ve never sounded better! The album highlights Decapitated’s ever-evolving sound and it’s …
Read More »DECAPITATED release lyric video for “Blood Mantra”
DECAPITATED have released the title track of their highly anticipated forthcoming release ‘Blood Mantra‘. Mastermind Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka commented: “Take a break from what you are doing and check our new lyric video for the song “Blood Mantra”. After “Psalm” its a second full song we want to share with …
Read More »FEAR FACTORY sign to Nuclear Blast Entertainment
The pioneers of industrial-tinged extreme metal, FEAR FACTORY, have signed a deal for North America & Europe with Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989, FEAR FACTORY changed the world of metal and have become a huge influence on the genre ever since their inception. The band’s …
Read More »Belphegor – ‘Conjuring The Dead’
Belphegor are a band who – in common with many of their black metal counterparts – have often gone out of their way to court controversy in order to build their profile, even going so far as to have their early albums banned in their native Austria (as well as …
Read More »MESHUGGAH announce 25th anniversary shows – London Roundhouse date
Sweden’s technically intoxicating extreme metal masters, MESHUGGAH, are bringing their immense live show to Europe this December to celebrate their 25th year of musical deviance. MESHUGGAH will play a very special 25th Anniversary set, performing selections from their 1989 – 2012 discography including some rare songs that haven’t been played …
Read More »SONATA ARCTICA to release re-recorded ‘Ecliptica’ 15th Anniversary edition
While currently on yet another successful world tour, this time to support their latest studio-album ‘Pariah’s Child’, Finnish melodic metal heroes SONATA ARCTICA swung by the studio to re-record their debut album ‘Ecliptica’, which was released 15 years ago. This new version will be released on October 27th under the …
Read More »BLACK STAR RIDERS announce new Producer for Second Studio Album
2014 has already been a landmark year for the Black Star Riders. They have already taken their critically and fan acclaimed live show on the road and stormed the stages of the United States and Japan for their first tours of both of those countries. The reaction has been nothing …
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